Mr D's English teaching blog

grammarlyblog:

Keep it simple! Use George Orwell’s six elementary rules (“Politics and the English Language”, 1946):

1. Never use a metaphor, simile or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.
2. Never use a long word where a short one will do.
3. If it is possible to cut out a word, always cut it out.
4. Never use the passive where you can use the active.
5. Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.
6. Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous. 

(Image: Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson)

Brilliant